32.
Was it worth it?
• Thread-safety is a minor advantage when it
comes to ﬁle uploads.
• Merb uses less memory.
• Merb is slower than rails.
• Merb may die on string thread-safe bug
until JRuby / Merb team ﬁx it.

34.
Consider merb if...
• you’re writing a small tool.
• you have limited memory requirements.
• you like trying new ORMs.
• you need fast performance (and you’ve
ﬁgured out why it runs so slow on JRuby).
• you like hacking about in frameworks.

35.
Upcoming
• Merb 1.0 is released Oct 11-12.
• MerbCamp is in San Diego Oct 11-12.
• Merb in Action book (2009?).

36.
Available
• I’m available for contracts again. Talk to me
here, at 408-646-2240 or
paulboone@mindbucket.com.
• http://www.mindbucket.com/